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# kine

«kine» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **cows** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

cows

### part of speech

noun, plural only

### meaning for a pupil

Cows, or cattle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kine/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "cows". "Kine" is the old plural of cow.

### examples

- And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine. (Torah GEN.41.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kine/#x1)
- You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kine/#x2)
- And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine. (Torah GEN.41.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kine/#x3)

### primary record

kine

### tests

manual 6; corpora 24 (Torah 17, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.7 (Torah alone 39.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [(32-16) thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1015/)
- [And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1300/)
- [And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1319/)
- [The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1327/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.